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It can also harm reproduction and its impacts may go unnoticed for years after exposure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0Baskut Tuncak, Special Rapporteur on hazardous substances and wastes said that,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u201cThe latest disaster has rightly drawn parallels to the toxic gas leak that killed thousands in Bhopal, India, in 1984.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Further he added,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI urge Indian and South Korean authorities, and the businesses implicated, to avoid the same mistakes and abuse of judicial procedures that have denied justice to the victims of the Bhopal disaster, who are still suffering to this day.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read More:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Who are UN Special Rapporteurs?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">UN Special Rapporteurs are part of what is known as the Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council. 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